I don't have the DVR space, but can whoever is recording these look out for what licensor (if any) is present at the beginning?

We know that (in addition to the already announced titles) that Young and Innocent and Sabotage are with Criterion.

I'm most curious as to the status of Secret Agent and Number 17 - as both of those have had Janus credits at some point in time, but nothing all that recent. Also if someone could check Easy Virtue and The Pleasure Garden (as both of those should be from the same source as The Lodger). I'd expect Lionsgate / Studio Canal on the other Hitchcock silents not mentioned above.

I've never seen them do this in all the years I've been following. I don't have DVR space to record the entire 10 hour block - so I'll probably miss out. I just hope its not some rare / special films that they otherwise don't want to make public until the last minute. Or perhaps this conspiracy will just be for something mundane.

Ribs wrote:Deadline is reporting they will be a selection of this year’s national film registry entrants, which were announced today

Yeah, this is what ended up being the case. Although I'm disappointed that they didn't chose some of the more difficult to see / rarer choices from the inductee list (like how is anyone supposed to see Lives of Performers (1972)?)

She's not been fired - she's been reassigned to a special events role. So it's possible she might become the main person for the Fathom Events intros, or something like that.

I like Alicia Malone well enough, but the new Filmstruck TCM Selects intros with Mankiewicz really hit home with a level of polish that I've felt lacking in much of the Filmstruck original content. I look forward to seeing her get to work on some hopefully better material on the actual channel.

Marlene Dietrich is star of the month for May, and her films are kicking off tonight with The Blue Angel at 8:00 pm eastern, followed by The Scarlet Empress, Shanghai Express, Morocco and Blonde Venus. The Devil Is a Woman will air next Thursday at 10:00 pm eastern. It may be worth checking to see if the Hollywood Sternbergs will be the new restorations in Criterion's upcoming set or just the same old masters they've aired before. Oddly, Dishonored is not included in the lineup.

Hard to tell about SCARLET EMPRESS -- it certainly looked cleaner and clearer than the old Criterion DVD, but it didn't have the Janus/Criterion logo before it. SHANGHAI EXPRESS was clearly the old master -- and the missing dialogue was not restored.

Worth keeping in mind that we'll be doing a simultaneous Oscar Lists Project this spring covering all films nominated for Best Picture in a couple different concurrent lists, so set your DVRs for any of the rarer Best Pic nominees/winners!

Under AT&T’s new restructuring plan for its media operations, Atlanta-based Turner Broadcasting will disappear into the annals of history.

Turner will be splintered or absorbed into three newly created entities.

The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, said the overhaul is expected to lead to cost cutting and layoffs that will certainly impact Atlanta operations. It noted that Dallas-based AT&T is “currently saddled with about $170 billion in net debt, the most of any non-financial U.S. company.”
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Warner Bros., another division of WarnerMedia, will oversee Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang and Turner Classic Movies. It will be run by Warner Bros. Chairman and CEO Kevin Tsujihara and is described as a “new global kids and young adults business” in the release although TCM doesn’t quite fit that description.

The AJC blog post seems to me just like a poorly summarized version of the press release. The full press release says:

Warner Bros.’ film, television, and games operations will add a new Global Kids & Young Adults business that brings together the family, kids and animation efforts from across WarnerMedia, including Cartoon Network, Adult Swim and Boomerang. Additionally, Otter Media, Turner Classic Movies and all activities around licensed consumer products development for WarnerMedia properties will also reside here. Kevin Tsujihara will spearhead these efforts and continue to lead Warner Bros. which, under his direction, has become the only studio with premiere positions in television, film and videogames.

That the division that includes TCM is being led by the Warner Bros. studio head (and not by one of the TV guys—Zucker or Greenblatt—is, to me, the best possible outcome of this restructuring. I'm still not optimistic for the long-term survival of TCM, but then I'm not optimistic about the long-term survival of much of anything right now.